I'm a bit sad. I've tried to bring people over to #Mastodon with what are good arguments to ME: #NSFW content creators will eventually be shadowbanned or booted off a platform as soon as there is advertisers or payment processors demanding it. For marginalised people, Mastodon has powerful tools to stay safe.
But most people I talk to do acknowledge that and then go on to stay on #Twitter or sign up for #Bluesky.
But I understand the discoverability issues, it's Mastodon's greatest weakness IMO.
@nggalai@AimeeMaroux I don't really agree with either or arguments. I would have stayed on #Twitter if they hadn't kicked me off - for using a VPN too often I can only guess.
And I'd happily try #bluesky - if someone offered me an invite - but i wouldn't leave here, unless I no longer liked it here. I use #Matrix and #telegram too.
Diversity is good. Everyone should be everywhere they have the time to be. After all that's how we use our offline time.
Why is it that #scientists hang on to #twitter? Why don't they move to #mastodon? @hildabast do you have contacts in the science community who could answer such questions?
"Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty."
The #1 choice is Mastodon!
Let's reach out to all our scientist (and non-scientist) friends and acquaintances and encourage them to join the Fediverse. If you still have an account on twitter, post some messages there with links to the Mastodon signup site. Let's welcome them here and provide some gentle hints on how to be productive here.
Meine (vermutlich etwas unpopuläre) These: Menschen, die "Ich kann einfach nicht verstehen, warum Leute immer noch bei #twitter / #X bleiben" posten, haben Twitter als zentrale Microblogging Plattform nie wirklich verstanden.
I got pushback on #kbin for saying this, but I think that the fact many #leftist or #socialjustice content creators and influencers continue to use #twitter is hypocritical, and undermines their integrity. I might create a larger blog post explaining my thoughts on this. But I guess I would like to hear from #mastodon what you think of this take. I can understand users who still need to use it for their job or livelihood, but not creators who encourage their audience to follow them there.
@Roundcat I do agree with what you're saying to an extent, although I've also heard from many people of colour (especially #Black) that the mass #TwitterMigration is very white dominated, because we have the privilege of running when things become dangerous or undesirable for us. #Mastodon still has a white-dominated issue, and unfortunately there have been #racism problems due to many instances not yet having gone through the growing pains of the various communities on #Twitter, or worse that some of them are actively run by bigots and/or their enablers.
For many people of colour, Twitter was NEVER really safe but it gave them a platform to widely share their existence and protest where they otherwise couldn't. They arguably have to work harder than anyone else to build their online communities and supportive networks, so I personally don't blame them for being hesitant to completely abandon it. For them, Twitter is more than a social media platform. It's a lifeline, a fundamental source of human rights information, resources and support networks. Twitter, even today, simply has an unmatched level of accessibility, popularity and influence on society. #Reddit has a similar problematic history yet is also a crucial source of information for various marginalised groups.
I personally chose to jump ship since it was getting too toxic for me as a #LGBTQIA+ and #neurodivergent person, but I also acknowledge that I had the privilege of being able to do that with only the slightest amount of inconvenience; I never particularly liked Twitter, and had other outlets available to me so it was an easy choice to make. Twitter did majorly help advertise my #YouTube content when I was first starting out in early 2018, so I can empathise with why many #leftist and #progressive content creators still use it.
It's one thing to try and rigidly comply with our principles, but reality is that we all live under a broken system, and those of us who are marginalised often have to play that system in order to survive, share our stories and resources on how to implement systemic change. If we waited for the perfect circumstances/platforms to do this (free of moral contradictions, compromises and sacrifices), our voices would just fade into obscurity. For many, abandoning ship is letting the bigots win - I wouldn't be surprised if silencing progressive and/or marginalised groups was THE reason Elon bought Twitter in the first place. Ultimately, it's a very personal choice whether someone decides to remain on Twitter or go elsewhere. On the surface the former is hypocritical, but the rhetorics used against it are full of privilege and purity politics which have their own air of hypocrisy to them.
There are no easy answers, except that we're all just trying to get by in this hostile, rigged system and turning on each other only serves to benefit and perpetuate that system.
Masto/Fedi: My dude we have like seventeen different ways to block people. Hell, block entire servers. Fuck it, block by default. Filter the letter "e" from your timeline and go full oulipo, we don't give a shit.
This is a comment I made on a thread on Lemmy. I thought I would share it here because it sums up a lot of the thoughts I have about twitter/x, and some of the leftist and liberal leaning content creators that remain. I am open to feedback and criticism though if you think I am missing something or being unfair.
I'm forgiving of artists because most of their customer base is there, and internationally, alt platforms are even more unknown. I am somewhat forgiving of journalists who want to reach the widest amount of people possible, despite the fact that Musk has been intentionally targeting and censoring journalists he doesn't like.
I really don't get a lot of leftist or liberal content creators though. Many constantly push the message that you vote with your wallet, and discourage patronizing businesses, services, or franchises that actively hate or harm marginalized people. Yet at the same time, they are using a platform owned by some who is literally trying to make the platform as hostile to marginalized people as possible. A lot of users have left twitter because they no longer feel safe using the platform. In fact, the reason you see a lot of queer people here on fediverse is because many of them are twitter refugees.
And yet many leftist and liberal creators remain on twitter, exclusively in fact. I could understand it if they pushed some content to alts to keep within reach of users that left while still maintaining their fanbase on twitter, but many of them won't even touch any of the alternatives, much less make themselves more reachable on youtube or other social platforms. By remaining on twitter, they are encouraging their userbase to remain as well, which creates engagement, which benefits ad companies who pay Musk, who funnels that into groups and causes that undermine their audience.
At this point, It is an integrity test for me. How large is this creator's following on twitter? How often does this person post and interact on twitter? and what have they said in the past about interacting with harmful brands? What's their excuse for remaining if any, and would they had accepted that excuse if the shoe was on the other foot?
I accept some people have an addiction, and as someone who tried to leave reddit many times, I know it can be a hard one to kick. But if your brand is built on integrity, standing up for the marginalized, and being ethical with your consumption habbits, remaining active on twitter is not a good look to me.
Veraenderungen brauchen manchmal Zeit, aber wenn ich sehe welche Dynamik in den letzten Wochen in der Blase zwischen #Twitter und #Mastodon entstanden ist, dann gibt mir das Hoffnung!
Fernandes & Won: The Unintended Consequences of Amplifying the Radical Right on #Twitter
in @polcommjournal
"Our findings show that users amplify the radical right’s original message via weak ties and cascade effects in making negative quoted tweets. Ultimately, denouncing the radical right backfires and helps nascent illiberal parties to reach out to more users in the network and gain more users."
@jerry With the death of #infosec#Twitter, the #fediverse is truly where you need to be for infosec content which is amazing! (Especially here on infosec.exchange & infosec.town 🙂!)
The scene over at #Bluesky can't compete when it comes to infosec...
Over the past month, multiple journalists from top outlets have contacted me related to content I’ve shared.
While this was not uncommon on #Twitter when I was active there, it’s relatively new for me in the #fediverse. I suspect this suggests professional news outlets are becoming more comfortable here & posts have increasing impact. Good.
If there are incriminating DMs in Trump's Twitter Account, here is how the government would know:
A cooperating witness turned over incriminating DMs.
Also nobody knows what the DOJ knows which is one reason investigations are done away from the public view.
So if you try to suppress something that the DOJ knows exists . . . ding.
Similarly, they'd have reason to think someone else was putting out some of his key Tweets concerning the leadup to January 6 from evidence already uncovered.
Uno reverse 🔁 (sh.itjust.works)
How Is Science Twitter's "Mastodon Migration" Panning Out? - Absolutely Maybe (absolutelymaybe.plos.org)
“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…
Like I get there are several reasons people remain. It just feels kinda weird to listen to a podcaster or youtuber go off on twittter, yet they still use twitter exclusively.